David E. James taught in the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California for thirty years, focusing on avant-garde cinema, culture in Los Angeles, East-Asian cinema, film and music, and working-class culture. His books include The Most Typical Avant-Garde: History and Geography of Minor Cinemas in Los Angeles; Optic Antics: The Cinema of Ken Jacobs; and Rock “N” Film: Cinema”s Dance With Popular Music, and his collection of essays (with Adam Hyman) Alternative Projections: Experimental Film in Los Angeles, 1945–1980.
16 Ebooks by David E. James
David E. James: Rock ‘N’ Film
For two decades after the mid-1950s, biracial popular music played a fundamental role in progressive social movements on both sides of the Atlantic. Balancing rock’s capacity for utopian popular cult …
PDF
English
DRM
€36.13
David E. James: Rock ‘N’ Film
For two decades after the mid-1950s, biracial popular music played a fundamental role in progressive social movements on both sides of the Atlantic. Balancing rock’s capacity for utopian popular cult …
EPUB
English
DRM
€36.44
Paul Arthur & David E. James: Optic Antics
Ken Jacobs has been making cinema for more than fifty years. Along with over thirty film and video works, he has created an array of shadow plays, sound pieces, installations, and magic lantern and f …
PDF
English
DRM
€44.60
Paul Arthur & David E. James: Optic Antics
Ken Jacobs has been making cinema for more than fifty years. Along with over thirty film and video works, he has created an array of shadow plays, sound pieces, installations, and magic lantern and f …
EPUB
English
DRM
€45.89
David E. James: Im Kwon-Taek
Korean cinema was virtually unavailable to the West during the Japanese colonial period (1910-1945), and no film made before 1943 has been recovered even though Korea had an active film-making indust …
EPUB
DRM
€36.02
John A. Dixon & David E. James: Economics of Dryland Management
We have always had land in which the agricultural productivity is limited because there is not enough moisture. Systems of farming and burning often degrade dryland further until it is desert. Today, …
PDF
English
DRM
€64.00
John A. Dixon & David E. James: Economics of Dryland Management
We have always had land in which the agricultural productivity is limited because there is not enough moisture. Systems of farming and burning often degrade dryland further until it is desert. Today, …
EPUB
English
DRM
€64.18
John A. Dixon & David E. James: Dryland Management: Economic Case Studies
Drylands are a sizeable part of the world”s potentially arable land. They vary from the hyper-arid regions of the classic deserts of Africa and Asia to the more common semi-arid and sub-humid areas …
PDF
DRM
€56.47
John A. Dixon & David E. James: Dryland Management: Economic Case Studies
Drylands are a sizeable part of the world”s potentially arable land. They vary from the hyper-arid regions of the classic deserts of Africa and Asia to the more common semi-arid and sub-humid areas …
EPUB
DRM
€56.49
David E. James: Application of Economic Techniques in Environmental Impact Assessment
The contribution of economic thought and method to environmental management needs practical illustration. Too few books on the subject achieve such an outcome. This book is among the notable exceptio …
PDF
English
DRM
€166.66
Adam Hyman & David E. James: Alternative Projections
A collection of papers discussing Los Angeles’s role in avant-garde, experimental, and minority filmmaking.Alternative Projections: Experimental Film in Los Angeles, 1945-1980 is a groundbreaking ant …
EPUB
English
DRM
€19.29
David E. James: Power Misses II
Like David James’ earlier collection of essays, Power Misses: Essays Across (Un)Popular Culture (1996), the present volume, Power Misses II: Cinema, Asian and Modern is concerned with popular cultura …
EPUB
English
DRM
€36.99
David E. James: To Free the Cinema
Jonas Mekas, one of the driving forces behind New York’s alternative film culture from the 1950s through the 1980s, made for an unlikely counterculture hero: a Lithuanian emigr and fervent nationalis …
PDF
English
DRM
€57.99
David E. James: Power Misses II
Like David James’ earlier collection of essays, Power Misses: Essays Across (Un)Popular Culture (1996), the present volume, Power Misses II: Cinema, Asian and Modern is concerned with popular cultura …
PDF
English
DRM
€36.99
Lars Gustaf Andersson & John Sundholm: The Cultural Practice of Immigrant Filmmaking
Based on a research project funded by the Swedish Research Council, this book analyses 40 years of post-war independent immigrant filmmaking in Sweden. John Sundholm and Lars Gustaf Andersson conside …
EPUB
English
DRM
€0.00
Lars Gustaf Andersson & John Sundholm: The Cultural Practice of Immigrant Filmmaking : Minor Immigrant Cinemas in Sweden 1950-1990
Based on a research project funded by the Swedish Research Council, this book analyses 40 years of post-war independent immigrant filmmaking in Sweden. John Sundholm and Lars Gustaf Andersson conside …
PDF
English
DRM
€0.13
